Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Yes, this is a simple visual pun but I like that it requires a tiny leap of thought from the soccer player's socks to Charlie Brown's shirt. It is just surreal enough to engage me. I have a friend who hates puns of all kinds, categorically. I think she's missing an enjoyable category of humor. Puns can be many different things: obvious, original, surprising, idiotic, and occasionally sublime. They can also suck, of course.

I know this goes back some days ago, but I just watched Poolhall Junkies. In case no one has seen it, some random 12 year old gets advice from a guy on how to pick up ladies. The guy swears by old spice and aqua velva working on the "ladies". The kid's reply was "that's what my dad uses." "Exactly" was the answer. Made me think of bizarro and my inexplicable reason to want to share this rediculous story. I guess if you can manage to make some girl marry you, you must have some intoxicating skills of attracting and keeping a woman. Hilarious.

Bless you, Peaches. It is my belief that slippery thoughts and slippery perceptions are at the very kernel of the humorous.

In the meantime, it is entirely possible that I am severely handicapped. You win, Fran.

Sorry, Dan. It must a pain to see your comments section hijacked like this, but the "blogosphere" seems to be rife with this sort of thing. Quite often the Enter key beckons more strongly than good sense.

The link I posted was cut off by blogger, but it connected to your identical "Charlie Brown horse" comic. Both the gag and the visual were identical. Did you copy Danny or did he copy you? Because if he got it from you, I think it goes beyond "getting an idea for a comic" to flat out copying.

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion.. Can't we all just get along????????? I love reading the comics.. and I love reading what Dan is up to and his little ditties everyday... But geesh these blog comments seem to get so crazy some days... C'mon people it's a friggen comic.. and a funny one at that...